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Patented Aug. 31, 1915.

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EDGAR E. HATHAWAY, 0E DoECHEsTEE, AND CHARLES LEA, 0E Bos'roN, MASSA- CHUsETTs, AssICNoRs 'ro AMERICAN WAHI.D DRAWING MACHINE COMPANY, A

CORPORATION OF MAINE.

MACHINE FOR HANDLING'TUFT-YANS FOR CARPET-LOOMS. i

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug, 31, 1915,

Application filed 'May 20, 1908. Serial No. 433,894.

To all whom it may concern Be it known .that we, EDGAR F. I-IATHA- wAY and CHARLES LEA, both citizens of the invented an Improvement in Machines for Handling Tuft-Yarns 'for Carpet-Looms, (Case A,) of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

Our invention relates -to the manufacture lof Acarpets or rugs of the Axminster and similar'types, beingmore particularly concerned with the provision of improved means for placing the tuft-yarns, customarily usedl in the weaving of such carpets or rugs, in the separate tubes of a tube frame of the type ordinarily employed in connec# tion with carpet looms of this class.

One object of our invention is to so facilitate and 4simplify this operation that it may b e performed with the minimum of cost,

both as regards the time of the operator and the waste of material, and also that such operation may be simplified and rendered certain and accurate while carried out by steps largely or wholly automatic.

Heretofore machines have been devised for placing the tuft-'yarns through the tubes i by means of a single needle, the latter passing successively through the tubes and drawing the yarn therethrough by successive reciprocations, this also requiring the coperation of the operator, who places successive strands of the tuft-yarns in position to be seized by the needle. It has also been prolposed to employ a tubing machine, as it may be termed, using a series of needles, one for each tube, adapted simultaneously to pass through the tubes and draw the entire series of yarn strands through the tubes at one operation. In each case, however, the tubing operation has contemplated the removal of the spool, upon which has been wound the tuft-yarns, from the spooling machine to a separate machine or apparatus.

I This not only involves additional labor but also the likelihood of disturbing the separated or -pattern-arranged condition in which the tuft-yarns leavethe spooling machinel and consequently dlsarranging the pattern. In such machines it requires much time and attention on the part of the operator to see that the tuftyarns are properly separated in exactly the intended arrang`ement before they are drawn into the tube.

Our invention contemplates the tubing of lthe tuft-yarns in the exact intended relation' without the necessary exercise of any particular care or attention on the part of the operator, and without any material'addition to the time required for spooling the tuft-yarns. Preferably, though not necessarily, as in the illustrated embodiment of our invention, this is accomplished as'a subordinate` step of the spooling operation, and also preferably, though notnecessarily, by devices which are themselves attached to, or operatively associated with, the spooling machine, so that each spool when wound and taken off from the machine is taken off with the tube frame attached and the tuftyagns each properly placed in its proper Our invention will bebest understood by reference to the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying illustration of one specific embodiment thereof, while its scope will be more partic 'ularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings: Figure l is a side elevation of a spooling machine, to which is shown applied one form of our invention; Fig. 2 is a similar elevation shown, however, in partial section; Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the mechanism for receiving the spool; Fig. 4 is a detail, partly in section, showing -the retarding device for the roller releasing mechanism; Fig. 5 is an end view of the spooling machine, showing the driving mechanism for the spool; Fig. 6 shows, partly brokenaway` and partly in section, a

'spool with the tube frame attached and the tuft-yarns at one end shown wound upon tion, partly broken away, showing one of the needles and its relation to the tube frame guide; Fig.- 12 is a plan view showing the relation of the separating reed to the tubes and tube'frame in one position of the reed; Fig. 13 is a similar view showingV the relation of the reed lto the tube frame in another position; Fig. 14 is an elevational section, partly broken away, showing the relation of the principal operative parts of the tubing attachment Fig. 15 is a similar view showing the parts in another position; Fig. 16 is a sectional4 detail showing the tuft y`arn clamp; and Fig. 17 is a plan view showing the tube frame guide and its rela` tion .to the tube. frame, the tubes at one end off the view being shown arranged in reverse' "relation from those shown at the' other end ular construction of spooling machine,

ployment of levers 5, links 6, rock shaft 7 the driving shaft 13 in any 11,- which latter is driven of the view. L

Referring tothe Adra-wings and tothe parp ticular'embodiment of our invention there vshown, we'have illustrated the same asapplied to a common and well-known type of spooling machine which, however,`for the sake of fully understanding the nature of vour. invention, we will briefly describe as follows, it being understood that our invention is not limited to this or any particnor, in its broad aspects, to a! mechanical attachment to or association with, a spooling ma# chine of any form or construction.

The specific formgof'spooling machine (see'particularly Figs.V 1 to 5) is provided with suitably connected uprightend frame members 1, carrying supports, such as the cone-shaped clutch members`2 (Fig. 3) for receiving the ends of a spool 3 of the usual constructionsuch, for example, as is dia- 110 grammatically and conventionally shown in Fig. 3, but is fully shown in detail in Fig. 6. Each spool support 2 is connectedto a sliding shaft or rod 4, and, through the emand 15, which may be shipped, respectively (Fig. 9), from the loose pulleys 16 or 17 to the tight pulley 18 by mea/ns of their respective shipping levers 19 and 20. mits the operator to impart winding movement to the spool, under power, in r either direction at will, or to stop the winding movement thereof. rIhe periphery of the spool when placed in position rests against the surface of a pair of friction rollers while T his pertion rollers and thereby wound evenly and tightly upon the spool with the same pate tern-arrangedseparation as is provided for by the reed or other` yarn separating device used upon the machine.

The two friction rollers 21 are supported..

at each end ina bracket 23, the latter capable of depression as the wound-on yarnincreases the effective outside diameter of the spool. The brackets 23 are secured to the pivoted arms 21, the latter pivoted upon the frame pieces at 25 and having their outer ends connected, respectively, to ropes, bands or other suitable connections 26, which latterA pass over suitable sheaves or pulleys 27 and are attached to appropriate weights 28, the latter, therefore, normally causing the rollers 21 to press upward against the spool and the yarn.

The. roller 22 is journaled at its opposite ends in arms 29which latter are united. by the rod 30, mounted for vertical, sliding movement at each end in slotted guides 31. Each end. ofthe rod 30 is secured to a dependingconnecting link 32, the latter attached to one end of the lever 33. The opposite end of the lever has the weight 34 tending to throw the rod 430 toward its upward limit of movement in the slotted guides.- The weighted end/ of each lever 33 is also connected to the strap 35, provided at its upper end with a slot 36, in which works a pin 37, the latter carried by one arm of the rocking actuator 38, which is secured to the roll releasing shaft 39. Another arm of the rocking actua-tor 38 is secured to a link 40 having at its upper end the slot 41 engaging a pin 42 on the end of the pivoted lever 24. A third arm on the actuator carries a roll43 engaging with the under side of the pivoted lever 14, attached to the upright member 45, which latter, at its upper end, is hook shaped to engage with a laterally and outwardly extending pin 4G on the adjacent arm 29 which ca rries the roller When the releasing shaft' 39 is turned in the direction of the arrow, as shown in Fig. 2, as by the crank 47, handle 4:8 and intermeshin gears l19 and 50 (shown in Fig. 1), the rocking member 3S, through its roll 13 acting on the lever 44, will 'first lift the hooked niembers 45, releasing the arms 29 and the roller 22 and then subsequently will draw down the link 40, lever 21 and the under rolls 21, and also draw up the link or strap 35 and draw down the-links 32 and the connecting rod 30. As the rod 30 is drawn .down

through the slotted guides 3l,the arms 29 l are caused to engage .lugs 51, which cause the arms andthe attached roll to be thrown over 1n the dotted line position shown in Fig. 2. The released positionv of the hooked.

members 45 is also shown by dotted lines in the said figure. In this open-or released relation of the rolls the spool 3 maybe inserted and the tutt-yarn `ends Wrapped around the same, preparatory to Winding.

on, after which the rolls are again closed in and the machine started up for Winding the spool. To adjust or .close inthe rollers the crank 47 is turned in the opposite direction,

reversing the movement of the rocking lever 384 and causing the parts to reassume the position shown in Fig. 2. The lever 44 is `provided with a Weight 52 suspended-therethe' releasing shaft 39 between which disk and the plate 54 bolted thereto is a fric'- tionally mounted annular plate 55, having radially projecting teeth or lugs 56 (Fig. 1)- Which, near the extreme end of its movement in either direction are adapted to engage with the plate 57 fixed upon a part of the frame, subsequent movement of the shaft 39 taking place under the retardingfriction of the annular plate against the adjacent disk 53 and plate 54. Friction material 5S of any suitable nature is provided betweenthe parts.

The parts and mechanism of the specific machine described are submitted merely for illustrative purposes to better aid an understanding of our invention, the said mechan nisms being well-known in the art and requiring no further description.v The machine shown is submitted merely as typical of a spool-winding machine which specifically forms no essential part of our invention, except in so far assuch a type of machine, or in its essential parts, may enter broadly into combination with the herein- A after described improvements.

In Figs. 6 to 8 we have illustrated the usual form of tube frame 59, with the series of tubes 60 attached thereto in the customary way, the frame being provided, as is usual, with the end spring .61 for attachment to the spool and the spring clips 62,- wliich engage with the ends of the spool and tend frictionally to hold itin a fixed position thereon. In a machine of this class there is customarily provided means foi" holding separated the adjacent consecutive yarn strands, or groups of strands, as they pass from the bobbin frame (not shown) to the winding mechanism on the spooling machine. These strands, or groups of strands, are selected in accordance with a pre-arranged pattern and must be wound upon the spool in strictaccordance with'the selected arrangement and placed through the tubes also in strict accordance therewith. In the illustrated form` of machine the yarn- `separating means is comprised in a member serving the fu'hction of a reed and consisting of a reed plate 63 having .upright separating pins 64, the latter arranged in any suitable fashion to efect the'desired purpose, but

here in tWo rows or series having a staggered relation each to each other. This reed plate is slidably mounted upon a suitable supporting member 65 atthe back of the machine, facing the bobbin frame from which the tuft-yarns are drawn, the reed plate being normally held as by means of the spring 66 (Fig. l0) in a definite position against.

one or more stop screws 67, one of which is shown in Fig. V13 passing through the slot 68 inthe reed plate. rIhe tuftyarns pass from the bobbin frame over a suitable roller 69 between the reed pins 64 to the winding spool on the machine, as seen in Fig.'5.` The reed is provided with means, such as the hinged gate 7 0 to close the accidental escape or displacement of the tuft-yarns from the open upper ends of the reed pins and thereby prevent the possibility of disarrangement of the' pattern after the strands have once been separated and properly positioned in the reed. In order to place the tutt-yarns through the tubes, in accordance with their selected arrangement, there are preferably provided means upon the machine itself for receiving the tube frame and for placing the strands through the tubes thereof before the spool has been removed from the machine and preferably at the close of the windingoperation, thereby insuring exact conformity to their selected pattern arrangement.

series of drawing needles 73, and also in fixed alineinent relatively to the spaces between the reed pins 64. The tube frame guide 7 2 normally rests in its lowermost position upon pins 74 secured to the frame. The 'parallel side walls of the tube frame guide are provided with suitably and herein semi-cylindrically shaped apertures 75 (Fig. 17) suitable to receive the' rounded edges of the metallic tube members, to guide and hold them in a definite fixedposition in the guide.

Both walls of the guide frame are shownl provided with guiding grooves 75, so that,

for a purpose to be described, the tube frame may be inserted with the tubes downward in the guide either as shown by full lines in Fig. 14,.and at the right in T"ig 17, or may be reversely arranged with the narrow sides 1 'gto receive the needles 7 3, the needle support in its lowermost tially the relation shown 5 Where hooked ends of the `the guide' frame, the needle lslots therein beling so positioned that when the tube frame is inserted, as shown in Fig. 14, the ends of the tubes are pushed .down each over and' .-ifgfabout the hooked end of its corresponding the frame,

of i the tube tube-the needles being carried upright upon the needle support76, which latteris below' the tubeide and attached to the sliding rack mem ers 77 suitably guided in guide supports' 78 upon the frame. lhebottom wall of. the tube frame guide 72'is slotted position 'having substanin F igs.10 and 14, needles'are Within needle. The. needles being preferably, as shown, in kconstant engagement with a guiding member, herein the tube guide, and the tubes being held andldeinitely locatedby all possibility of displaced alinement between the needle and the tubes is absolutely precluded, for, if the tube frame can be inserted at alljin the guide', the tubes must necessarilyv acquire the correct alinement with reference to the rocating movement to the needles. i In order to impart vertical' recipneedle support and the needles, the rack members'77 are each provided with teeth 79 .'(Figs. 10 and 14)- engaging w-iththe' teeth of a pinion'80 keyed or otherwise secured to the shaft 81,

l the latter having" at each 'end a hand wheel *.82 by which the shaft maybe turned and the needle therebyraised or lowered.

.The operation of the machine from the foregoing description can 'now be rea'dily understood. Assuming a -tube frame to have been placed within the tube guide, as shown in full lines in Fig. 14, and the spool to have been fully wound, .the next step is to stop the winding mechanism of the machine and then turn the hand wheel 82 to raise the needle support and carry the needles up and through the tubes. The needles are elevated until the needle supporting bar 76 strikes the underside of the tube guidlel A72, whereupon the latter is also elevated with the further movement of the'needle bar, the parts finally assuming the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. ,14. The guiding grooves 75 in the tube frame guide Aand the needle slots therein are so arranged relatively to the reedv pins 64 that, -when the needles are ele- '.vated'and pass above the tutt-yarns, as

shown in Fig. 14, a needle is introducedbetween each successive separated strand or groups of strands of the tuft-yarns, all according to .the arrangement represented in Fig. 12. Wi-th the needles and tubes elevated to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 14, the operator` then slides `the reed plate 63 to theright, or in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig. 12, utilizing for this purpose one or both of the upright handles 83 secured to the upper side and ateach end ofthe reed plate. They latter then assumes the position shown tuft-yarns have been wrapped about the needle shanks sufliciently to be drawn under the hooked ends thereof, s'o that, on subsequent descent of the needles, the tuft-yarns are sure to be engaged thereby. With the parts in this relation, the hand wheel 82 is turned back to lower the needle support until the latter assumes its original Josition shown'in full lines in Fig. 14, the tu t-yarns, however, being drawn down into the dotted line position there also shown, where it will be seen that the loops engaged by the needles are partly drawn down into the tubes.

Between the tube frame and the reed we have provided means for clamping the strands preferably close up to the reed so that their selected arrangement is certain to be preservedand, preferably before severing the strands, or drawing the tubes upon the same, the tuft-yarns are clamped in such clamping means. For this purpose we have provided a removable channel piece 84, preferably constructed of resilient material such as sheet metal', which is adapted to be inserted between the reed plate and an under"- lying bar 85 before the described tubing operationtakes place. When the strands are drawn down into the tube, as represented in Fig. 14, a clamping member such, for eX- ample, as the appropriately shaped bar or strip 86 (Fig. 16), covered, ifdesired, with any suitable friction material 87 such as feltl or the like, is placed horizontally across the tuft-yarns, and the latter are forced thereby into the channel member 84 of the clamp, and are thereby frictionally clamped in their selected arrangement close upto the reed. In this relation, with their ends now stretched overthe beveled edge of the underlying bar 85, the strands can bereadily severed by the operator between the tube frame and the clamp by drawing a knife along such beveled edge, there being shown for this purpose a' guiding groove 88 adapted to receive the edge of the knife. Obviously automatic or other ing the strands may be employed, but the described mode is simple and causes a clean severance close to the clamp and the tube frame without waste of material. lVith the strands severed, the tubing operation vis completed by merely lifting the tube frame up out of its guide and into a position shown in Fig. 15, the needles holding down the free ends of the threads while the tubes are drawn over them. The vspool can be removed from the machine in the manner described and the tube frame attached to the spool, allfas represented in Fig. 6. This in Fig. 13 wherein the desired means for sever- Sliilo

having been accomplished, a new spool is inserted in the frame, the Vclamp 84 with the clamped ends of the tuft-yarns withdrawn from its recess, and the tuft-yarn ends wrapped about`the freshspool, as usual. The clamp being then removed from the strands the winding operation is repeated.

. In practice this tubing operation is per4 f formed as anauxiliary step .to the spooling 4and lower the needle, clamp and sever thel and is accomplished with scarcely any loss of time, the operator having only to raise Strands and withdraw the tube frame from positioned therein, are raised to the dotted line position in Fig. 1i, means are preferably provided, such` for example, as the depending members S9 (Figs. 5 and 10) having transverse pins 90 which engage the said springs 62 and depress them when the tube guide is raised. The members S9 are carried by upright supports 91 mounted one at each end of the machine.

It will be seen that the yarn strands are tubed while still separated byy the reed or other means employed in the'spooling matlO chine, and that no added burden is placed upon the operator of separating or keeping separated in their proper sequence the yarn sti'ands for-the purpose of the tubing operation further than is imposed upon hi m by the usual spooling operation. It will further be seen that this mode reduces all waste of tuft-yarn to a minimum.

Itl will be obvious that no auxiliary tensioning devices are necessary as have here` tofore been used in connection with tubing devices, for the needles, in engaging the tuft-yarns, draw them against the natural draft or tension of the spooling ma'chine which is provided at one side by th i bobbins from Which the yarns are drawn and by the `@,pool at the other side.

It Jfrequently happens that it is necessary to reverse the pattern arrangement of the yarns as Wound upon any given spool Where, for example, a certain pattern arrangement is used at one side of-the center line of the rug and a symmetrical, Abut reverse pattern is readily accomplished by winding the yarn on the spool in the direction shown by dotted lines in Fig. 5 and then linserting the tube frame into the tube'guide, as shown at the left in Fig. 17, and in dotted lines in Fig. 14. VThe tubing operation under such circumstances is accomplished in precisely the same way .aslr described, but the tubes, when the strands are placedtherethrough, will bear a reverserelation from end to end to the pattern arrangement ofthe strands.

It will be obvious that we have herein de scribed and shown the disclosed embodiment of our invention for illustrative purposes only, and that the latter is not limited to the details of construction or form or relative(arrangement of parts, `but that, on the contrary, extensive deviations may be made from those shown without departing from the spirit of our invention.

Having thus described ,our invention,

what we claim is;

1. In a machine for acting upon tuft- -yarns for carpet looms, the combination with spool-winding means, of means for tubing the yarns beforel being severed from the winding means.

Q'. In a machine for acting upon' tuftyarns forl carpet looms, the combination with spool-winding means, of means for tubing the yarns while still engaged by the winding means.

3. In amachine for acting upon tuft lyarns for carpetl looms, the combination with spool-winding means, of means for simultaneously tubing all the yarns before being severed from the winding means.

4. In amachine for acting upon tuftyarns for carpet looms, the combination with spool-winding means, of means for simultaneously tubing all the yarns while still engaged by the winding machine.

5. The combination with a spool-Winding means for tuft-yarns adapted to receive a spool for the winding of the yarns thereon, of means for tubing the yarns after being wound upon the spool, but before the latter` is removed from the Winding means.

6. The combination with a spool-Winding means for tuft-yarns adapted to receive a spool for the winding of the yarns thereon, of means for tubing` the yarns after being wound upon the spool, but before severance lfrom the Winding means.

7. In a machine for acting upon the tuftyarns for carpet looms, the combination with spoollwinding means, of 'means connected with the spool Winding means for tubing the yarns while still in the spool winding means. l

` 8. In an apparatus for acting upon tuft yarns, the combination with spool Winding means, yarn separating means, means to tube the yarns while still Within the control of the separating means, and provision on isa . the spool winding means forisevering the which the lsaid devices pass, said guiding thread placing movement.

yyarns between the tubeframe andthe sep,.-

arating means.

9. In avmachine' for winding tutt-yarns, the combination with spool-winding` means,

l.of separating means, means Afor holding a tube frame, a series of drawing needles adapted toipass. through 'the tubes thereof, said separating means being movable on the windingmeans tocause engagement between the needles and the yarns.

10.In a machine for acting upon tuftyarns for carpet looms, the combination with spool-winding means, of a plurality of needles, means for holding a tube frame, and means for causing thev needles to eni gage the tutt-yarns while in the Winding means and place them within the .tubes of the frame.

.11, In al machine -for drawing tuft-yarns for carpet looms, the combination with yarn-placing means, of tube-frame holding means adapted to receive the tube frame in either one of two inverted positions.

12. In a 'machine forl acting upon tuft yarns the combination with a tube frame holder of a` series or bank of thread placing devices, means for giving them simultaneously a thread. placing movement, a rigid guiding and separating means through and separating means being movable with relation to said thread placing devices but in constant engagement therewith, the said rigid guiding means serving to guide and lhold the thread pla-sing devices in their 13..In a machine for acting upon tuft 'yarns the combination with a pluralityof thread placing devices of tube frame holding means, means togive thesaid devices a thread placing movement from an initial ,positionwithin the tubes, the latter wheninserted in the holding means being brought each over and about its corresponding needle.

14. In a machine for acting upon tuftyarns, the combination `with spool-winding means, of yarn separating means, a pluralously placing a 'plurality of tutt-yarns' through the tubes ofsa'id frame, and means ity of needles, and tube holding means, Athe said needles, spool winding means, tubeholding means and separating means being maintained in definite relation.

15. The combination witha tube frame having thespring 62, means for-simultanemove said holder with said needles'.

17. In anapparatus forfacting upon tuft-- yarns the combination with spool holding means, separating means forfseparating the yarns as they come from the'bobbin frame, meahs for tubing the yarns while` under the control of said separating means, means for clamping the yarns between the tube frame and the separating means, and provision for severing the yarns between the clamping means and the tube frame.

18. In a machine for acting upon tuft yarns the combina-tion with a tube frame holderyof a plurality ofthread placing de# yarn placing means, said holder holding the tube frame in either of two Areverse positions to reverse the arrangement of tuftyarns when desired.

` 20. In a machine for acting upon tuft yarns the combination with a reciprocating needle carrier '76, the bank of needles 7 7 and theeperforated rigid guide and separator 72 through which the needles pass, said guide and, Separator being movable relatively to the needles in the. direction of movement of the needles.

21, In a multiple needle tutt-,yarn placing machine `forl placing the tutt-yarns through the tubes of a tube trame, the com; bination with means for holding the tube frame of a series of needles and a needle guide in consta nt engagement with said needles, said 'guide being movable with and relatively to said needles.

22. In a machine of the kind described, a source of yarn supply, means for supporting the said yarns to be drawn in, means for supporting the yarn guide tubes, drawthrough said tubes, and yarn-severing mechanism operatingbetween the sourceof supply and the deliveryends'bf the tubes to sever said yarns from said source after they have been drawn in 4 23. In a machine for acting upon tutt-j rating means and connected to the spool winding means.

24. In an apparatus for acting upon tuftyarns, the combination with spool-winding means, of means to hold the tuft-yarns in selected separation for the winding operation, and neans 'for simultaneously tubing loo ing-in mechanism to deliver said yarns.

all the yarns While still separated by the said separating means and connected to the spool Winding means.

25. In an lapparatus for acting upon tuftyarns, the combination with spool-Winding means, means for separating the yarn'for the Winding operation and means to tube the yarns While still Within the control of the separating means and connected to the spool Winding means.

26. In an apparatus for acting upon tuft yarns, the combination with spool Winding means, yarn separating means, means to tube the yarns While still Within the control of the separating means, and provision for severing the yarns between the tube frame and the separating means While connected to the spool Winding means.

27. In a. machine Vof the kind described, yarn-drawing mechanism to move a complement of yarns through the tubes` of yeach tube frame as successive tube frames are put in position, means for providing a gen'- eral supply of yarns for delivery to said successive t'ube frames, and means for cooperating With successive complements of.

yarns for delivery to said successive tube frames toposition and maintain said yarns in correct position.

28. A machine of 'the kind described,comprising means for providing a general supply of yarns, means for holding a complement of said yarns in position to be engaged,

means for- Winding said complement of' yarns on a spool, and means for threading said yarns through the tubes o-f a loom tube frame.

29. vA machine of the kind described, comprising means for providing a general supply of yarns, 'means for holding a complement of said yarns in position to be engaged, means for Winding said complement of yarns on a spool, means for severing the Wound yarns evenly from the supply cf yarns, and means for threading said yarns through the tubes of a loom tube frame.

80. In a; machine for acting upon tuft yarns for carpet looms', the combinrA ti on with spool winding means, of means for simultaneously tubing all the yarns before being severed from the winding means.

31. In 'a' machine for acting upon tuft yarns for carpet looms, the combination with spool Winding means, of means for simultaneously tubingvall the yarns While still engaged by the Winding means.

32. -The herein described method of threading the guides of spool frames for use in AXminster or like looms consisting in positioning the spool frame near the spooling machine, and introducing the threads to the guides thereof While still attached to the bobbins of the spooling machine, and then cutting the threadsat a point between the guides and the bobbins and removing the spool frame and its threaded guides from the spooling machine for subsequent use in the loom, substantially as described.

33. The herein described threading guides for use Ain Axminster or like looms consisting in introducing the method of a threads to said guides while on their Way from the bobbins of the spooling machine to the spools, then cutting the threads at a point between the guides and the bobbins and removing the guides-and spool for Vsubsequent vuse in the loom, substantially as A described.

3l. In a machine for acting upon tuft yarns the combination with a tube frame holder of a plurality of threadv placing devices and guiding means therefor ymovable xvith and alsorelatively to said devices, said Vguiding means being connected to and forlndevices, and guiding means f-or the latter movable with the tube frame holder.

36. In a machine for tubing tuft yarns in carpet manufacture the combination with means for holding a tube frame having a plurality of tubes to be threaded, means for holding a series of tuft yarns, a plurality of thread placing devices one for each tube which is to be threaded, means for moving the threadplacing devices simultaneously in an alined relation .each to its respective tube to place the yarns therethrough, and guiding and separating means for simultaneously guiding .each thread placing device with relation to its respective tube and forV separating the successivemembers of the series of thread placing devices each from the other, said guiding means being movable with and in relation to the thread placing devices during their thread placing movement.

37. In a machine for acting upon tuft yarns, ,the combination with a spool holder and Winding mechanism for- Winding the yarns on the spool, a yarn guide between the spool and the source of supply, a plu. rality of thread placing devices arranged between the spool holder and the yarn guide and at one side of the path of the yarns, means for moving said thread placing devices transversely the'plane of the. yarns to 'cause each to engage aI yarn strand or strands and atube frame holder for hold- 4ing a 'tube frame through the tubes of yarns onf the spool, a yarn guide between the spool and thesource of supply, a plurality of Vneedles and a needle holder arl ranged between the` spool holder yand the yarn` guide and at one side of the path of the yarns, a tube frame holder also located at one side of the path of the yarns to cooperate with the needles, means for moving said needle .holder to project the-needles through the tubes and across the plane of the yarns and tocause each to engage a yarn strand or strands and for subsequently movrving sald holder to retract said needles and 'draw the strands through the tubes.

39. In a machine for actingupon tuf-t yarns,.the combination with a spool holder and -Winding mechanism for Winding the yarns on the spool, a yarn guide between the spool and the source of supply, a plurality of needles and a needle holder arranged betWeen the spool holder and the yarn guideand at oney side of the path of the yarns, a tube frameholder for holding the tubes of a tubeframe' in coperative relation to the needles, driving mechanism for moving the needle holder to project the needles through the tubes and to engage each a' yarn strand or strands, said tube frame holder being. moved With the needle holder during the latter part ofsaid yarn engaging movement and for subsequently moving tube frame'and to draw the lthe tubes of the tube frame.`

40. In a machine for acting upon tuftyarns, the combination with a spool holder,

a yarn 'support for maintaining the yarns inl i means for moving saidneedles. transversely the sheet of yarns first to project them through the tubes, then to cause themovement of thetube frame holder with the needles and the engagement by each needle of a yarn strandv or strands and for subsequently reversing the movement of the needles to draw back'the` yarns and tubes and finally draw the yarns through the tubes.

41. In a tuft yarn tubing'machine for placing the tuft yarns through the tubes of a tube frame, the combination With means for holding the tube frame, of a thread placing device, a guide in constant engagement with-said device, and means for reciprocatively moving said device'to tube the yarns,vsaid guide being movable `with and relatively to said device.

In testimony whereof, We have signed our names to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses. 4

EDGAR F. HATHAWAY. CHARLES LEA. 

